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meets with my approval, a great film!
Grins
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I don't recall seeing it, although I thought I've seen most of his movies.
film's most intriguing. Anyone that mistakenly trots out the saw that Bogart was but a star and not much of an actor, or that he played the same character over and over, needs to see this film.
How many leading men of today would portray such a man?
most acting coaches and teachers would agree on this fact...I have not seen the film in question...but will have to take a look at it to see...btw....ONE effective performance as an actor does not solidify his talent as a great actor....he will never be in the same league as Tracy, Day-Lewis, DeNiro.....etc.. etc....
fashionable to damn the great but Bogart was versatile, playing villains, heroes, and lovers all with nonpareil skill. I think you're forgetting that for many years, Warner Bros. cast him in dozens of gangster films and he had a hell of a time breaking out of that stereotype.
Anyhow, Bogey is Bogey: the list of his great films is surpassed by none.
One hears your same hooey about many great actors, including Olivier: one critic said that Sir Lawrence seemed to think that every film line was written by Shakespeare.
I think what happens is that actors with extremely powerful personalities and that have long careers make it difficult for some viewers to see them as other characters.
I mean, can you forget that Alec Guiness was the Colonel in Kwai while watching him in Star Wars? I guess you could say he's playing the same guy?
How about Brando?
Wayne?
Cooper?
Mitchum?
Grant?
Davis?
paranoid insanity. A great, great performance. I agree he was a personality but his acting ability, even within the stifling studio system, shines through. Fifty years after his death the performances still tower above many of his peers. I wonder if the same will be said or Danial Day-Lewis and other contemporary actors in another fifty years after their demise. I won't be around to find out.
necessary charisma to play strength. Notice his ridiculous overacting, the arching brows, the leering eyes, the very old-fashioned acting apparent in his last effort or that Scorsese thing.
Some think he's the second-coming but all I see is scenery chewing. I'm not necessarily right, of course, since how we respond to human character intensely is personal.
every one of his performances, for the reasons you offer, after "My Left Foot".
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he's "method acting" before Lee Strasburg even taught that style. Other film actors he's working with tend to be quite stiff and stagey by comparison; as if they'd just walked off a Broadway stage onto the sound set
Bogart adds the dimension to his acting we now take for granted in film + as such was years ahead of his time
Grins
a casual, off-the-cuff attitude. Mitch also made sex explicit for the first time in American cinema.
I stand by my assertion....this is something that I've debated with other actors and teachers...Theater Arts was my major in college....I would have to say again that Bogart IS a personality....again he may have been effective in the role you pointed to....but a true actor transcends the role and makes you suspend the belief that they are playing the role and they become that character....The other actors I mentioned have all done this to greater and lesser varying degrees....attached is a scene with Tracy and Bergman in Jekyll and Hyde....Tracy insisted on little to no makeup...he simply became evil....THAT is what acting is......
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